/ovg/ Sunday Cup
/ovg/ Sunday Cup is a Saturday Series all about emulating the good old Gran Turismo starter car races in a cheap shitbox barely fit for a race track. Series is organized by RBDK.
If you want to join, please sign up and keep an eye on the Google Document for more information.
Contents
Technical Directives New And Less Retarded
- The car you race must be "purchased" on a classifieds ad. Maximum budget is 3000 euro/3500 usd/2600 gbp or whatever other banana republic currency you have that's equivalent to 3000 euro.
- Entrant MUST supply a link to a listing of the car IRL of a running, driveable example from a country in EUROPE (ie. not Russia or Turkey), UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA or the UNITED STATES. The listing must be for sale - no sold listings permitted (or else any of us can pull up shit from 1995 etc).
- Running and driveable meaning specifically that the listing doesn't say that the car is broken to the point of not really being driveable. "Runs then shuts off" for instance isn't a running example, but "occasional misfire" is a running example. Use common sense.
- The car must be with plates and any import duties paid for the country it is listed in, but additional road tax and insurance and MOT doesn't matter.
- You must find/create a suitable AC car for the car you found for sale. Note body model doesn't have to be exact, eg. if you find a BMW 320i E46 but can only find a mod for the M3 E46 that's fine cosmetically. You can also give it the full NFSU treatment if you want to. However if you find an E90 BMW and submit the mod as a E46 it will be rejected.
- No two cars of the same type will be allowed to enter. First come first serve! Definition of type: Same body shape, ie. both a BMW 320i E46 and a BMW 328i E46 will not be allowed. RBDK will mark your entry as ACCEPTED on the doc and you will be the one with that particular car.
- Physics for your car will come from a set of donor physics (supplied below in the How To section) based on your cars drivetrain (FF/FR/MR/4WD, RR cars will run as MR) EXCEPT car weight and the power curve.
- Maximum power 250 bhp. No cars that factory spec came with a higher rating will be permitted, full stop. No exceptions.
- Power rating MUST be identical to manufacturer spec sheet for the car. You can probably find a power curve online, try to match it as closely as possible.
- If your car can rev beyond the donor physics car, you can change the redline in the engine.ini file. This is allowed, just match the spec sheet.
- It is allowed to change the gearbox to match the real car spec sheet, however if you can't be arsed you're also allowed to use the spec physics set.
- Weight must be set to be identical to the curb weight factory spec of the car for race 1.
- You must create a sundaycup specific variant of the car before submission because of success ballast. See the How To section.
- Success ballast will be applied week to week, so a patch will be released every week for this purpose
- Once Race 1 starts, you may no longer change your car or edit it under any circumstances other than to apply a ballast patch. If you do not participate in Race 1, but you have submitted a car, this also applies. If you submit a car after race 1 but did not participate in race 1, your car will be locked immediately upon approval.
| Position | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 20 |
| 2nd | 15 |
| 3rd | 11 |
| 4th | 8 |
| 5th | 6 |
| 6th | 5 |
| 7th | 4 |
| 8th | 3 |
| 9th | 2 |
| 10th | 1 |
The formula for succes ballast is simple, 3*Your Points=weight ballast in kg. No ballast will be applied between race 1 and 2 on any given event. This will be part of the weekly update pack.
| Round | Points Acheived | Total Points at Start of Round | Success Ballast for the round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 kg |
| 2 | 6 | 8 | 8*3=24 kg |
| 3 | 15 | 14 | 14*3=42kg |
| 4 | 2 | 29 | 29*3=87kg |
How To: Physics Replacement
You will need Content Manager and Assetto Corsa Car Tuner. Necessary files for all classes of car
If you are a smallbrain and have reading troubles, tes made a video guide here. It takes literally 10 minutes to make a car, so don't pussy out.
Steps
The steps in making a car are simple:
- Download and install a car mod for the car you have found
- Open Assetto Corsa Car Tuner (or do it manually if you know how) and create a new tune which you will add the suffix "_sundaycup" to for your car. DONT PUT CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE TUNE NAME IT WILL BREAK
- Replace the cars physics with the donor files appropriate for your drivetrain
- Edit the power curve to match the real car
- Edit the weight to match the real car
- Adjust the cars wheel position to match in Content Manager
- Test your creation works
For this example we will be making an eligible car out of a insert car here when we get that far
- Select the car in Car Tuner, and create a new tune with the "_sundaycup" name. DONT PUT CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE TUNE NAME If you know how to do this manually go ahead.
- Copy the files from the respective donor car in spec physics zip file MINUS THE car.ini into the car folder. Make sure you overwrite.
- This part might be difficult if you really have no idea what you're doing, but go through the car's files and start deleting anything that looks like it'll conflict and/or ruin the Perfect BoP(tm). Make the new car's folder look as similar as possible to the donor physics folder. For example if your car has .lut files referencing it's old tires, those can be deleted. If you need help please just come on mattermost or mumble and ask.
Specifics
car.ini
- Keep the car.ini of the original car.
- From the donor FF/FR/MR/4WD car.ini, copy over the [BASIC](unsure about GRAPHICS_OFFSET and GRAPHICS_PITCH_ROTATION, test for yourself lol) [CONTROLS], [FUEL], [FUELTANK], [RIDE], [RULES] and [PIT_STOP] categories to your new car. Delete anything old in those categories.
- Under [BASIC] adjust the weight TOTALMASS to be the curb weight of your car. The value is in kgs.
- Leave the [HEADER], [INFO], and [GRAPHICS] categories as is. Delete anything else.
- CAR INERTIA - the default inertia factor in the data files may be too little or too much. so you are free to adjust the INERTIA value in car.ini to match the car's nominal WIDTH, HEIGHT, LENGTH as displayed on a spec sheet. alternatively view the INERTIA "box" in CM showroom and adjust it accordingly.
Power.lut
- Open the file power.lut with notepad. The format is X|Y where X is the RPM and Y is the power output at said RPM value. You can find a power curve of your car online and approximate this. In Content Manager, you can go to Content->The car you made and using the 3-dots at the Power Graph recalculate using power and torque and the graph will update, as will your BHP and torque values. It's a bit fiddly so just adjust until it fits.
- https://acstuff.club/u/torque-helper/ can be used to help with the process
View the Car in CM Showroom
Click car params, scroll down and click "Align using data" under "Wheels." The wheels are probably messed up.
- Adjust the wheelbase with WHEELBASE in suspensions.ini
- Adjust the track with TRACK under [FRONT] and [REAR] or [GRAPHICS_OFFSETS] in suspensions.ini.
- Other minor things can be adjusted with GRAPHICS_OFFSET and GRAPHICS_PITCH_ROTATION in car.ini if necessary.
- Finally, in Content Manager, make the car independent of the original car. That is the one that doesn't have the _sundaycup suffix. You do this by going to Content->The car you made and then to the right of the power curve, under the preview pic, click on "Parent" and then on "Make Independent".
- Zip up the car folder and submit it
Ok I'm All Done Now What
- Test your car in game to make sure it actually works correctly.
- Your car's sound might be complete shit, use Content Manager to replace sounds.
- Skin your car if you want. I hope your car came with a template lol.
- Delete all the skins besides the one you want to use.
- Don't pack the data.
- Link the car on the Google doc.
I Can't Get It To Work In Game Halp
Just send the car over anyway in the Google doc/ask in the mattermost or mumble, just mention its fucked and someone will look at it and probably help fix it.
How Do I Connect to the Server?
Server will be WAT: Sunday Cup and the pass is 4ch
Restart Procedure
Race will be restarted if needed. But probably not.
Race Format
Two races, 15 minutes each +1 lap. First race is quali, second is full grid reverse.
Don't drive like an idiot, and pay attention to the flags.
Don't flip Marko Tulska. Unless it's Flip Marko Tulska Day or if flipping him would be really funny.
Track Limits
Feel free to run wide on corner exit, just expect to be called a faggot and insulted in public especially if you wreck someone because of it.
Skins Guideline
Your car will be yours and yours alone. Submit the skin you want with the car. There will be no skin packs between events, but you will also only have a single car on the server of the one you pick. That means the server will NOT require booking mode.
FAQ
- Presence on Mumble is not mandatory, but highly encouraged. If you're not on mumble at the very least pay attention to the AC chat.
- While the series is open for anyone to join, please practice until you feel comfortable around the track before joining the race.
